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- Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors http://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-human-editors/ 6 comments
- Show HN: Ranking Your University Using PageRank on Wikipedia http://blog.argteam.com/coding/university-ranking-wikipedia/ 3 comments
- [OC] Ranking the popularity of every NBA player by Wikipedia page views in 2018 https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Cat%7CDog 9 comments nba
- An infographic of history's 20 most influential people, ranked by Wikipedia reach http://cdni.wired.co.uk/1920x1920/g_j/infoporn-11.jpg 8 comments history
- 96.6% of Wikipedia Pages Rank in Google's Top 10 http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/966-of-wikipedia-pages-rank-in-googles-top-10/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Map that shows the birthplaces of notable people, created by Topi Tjukanov from Helsinki. The notability rank is mainly derived from wikipedia meta data. https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people 7 comments dataisbeautiful
- The baseball-related Wikipedia article with the most references is "2015 Los Angeles Dodgers season," with 385 citations. This ranks just above "Abraham Lincoln" (383) and just below "Jehovah's Witnesses" (391). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:articles_with_the_most_references 33 comments baseball
- Historical figures ranked by Internet traffic: "We have developed computational methods to measure historical significance through analysis of Wikipedia and other data sources." http://www.whoisbigger.com/ 11 comments history
- I was browsing Feyenoord's Wikipedia page and noted their entire team is Dutch (barring a player on loan). Could they be the highest Uefa rank team without a foreigner in their squad? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/feyenoord#current_squad 100 comments soccer
- "As per Wikipedia Nawaz Sharif is ranked as 3rd richest in Pakistan & doesn't list under top 10,000 tax payers in Pakistan." | @PTIofficial https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/652104665807618050 12 comments pakistan
- Many female novelists, like Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Amy Tan, Donna Tartt and some 300 others, have been relegated on Wikipedia to the ranks of “American Women Novelists” only, and no longer appear in the category “American Novelists.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html?_r=2& 282 comments books
- [Frank Reich - Wikipedia] Franka Reich led his team to the biggest comeback victory ever in both the college and NFL ranks, including a 32-point comeback for the Bills in 1993 as a backup QB. He also won a Suberbowl with Nick Foles(a backup QB) and he is now playing a season with a backup QB Brisett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/frank_reich 20 comments nfl
- Study investigated 516,586 Wikipedia articles related to various companies in 310 language versions and compiled a ranking of reliable sources of information based on all extracted references. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-29570-6_3 6 comments science
- "Bitcoin, the much-hyped "future of money" has turned into the most speculative intangible asset of all time, while proving totally unsuitable as a means of payment." -Wikipedia Top 50 Annual Report for 2017, Bitcoin page ranked #9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Annual_Top_50_Report 3 comments btc
- Pro tip: The Wikipedia article for the NFL Top 100 is way smarter, cleaner, and easier to navigate that the NFL.com page. Video links and ranking change are on the far right of each player's name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nfl_top_100_players_of_2017 263 comments nfl
